Documentation: video, discussion
Image courtesy of the artists.
Join us on Thursday, March 14 from 6-8pm for Codes, a new audiovisual collaboration between Kamari Carter and Gladstone Deluxe using data extracted from live police scanner transmissions as material for musical exploration. Codes works toward a synthesis of Carter’s research around incarceration, black aesthetics, and surveillance alongside Deluxe’s haptic, afrological, and techno-inspired composition strategies.
This program is part of the third season of Sight/Geist, a series at The 8th Floor that supports local emerging film and performance artists. The performance will begin by 6:30pm, to be followed by an artist discussion and Q&A led by the Foundation’s Charles de Agustin, Sight/Geist organizer.
All of our events are free and open to the public, with RSVPs encouraged. The gallery will be open for normal public hours of Reality Reframed: Recent Works by Todd Gray on the day of the program from 11am, with select works potentially obstructed from 5pm due to the event setup. Info on accessing our space can be found here. Email us with any questions.
Kamari Carter is a New York-based artist working primarily with sound, video, installation, and performance. His practice circumvents materiality and familiarity through a variety of recording and amplification techniques to investigate notions such as space, systems of identity, oppression, control, and surveillance. Driven by the probative nature of perception, Carter’s work seeks to expand narrative structures through sonic stillness. His work has been exhibited at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum, Providence, RI; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ; Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY; Wave Hill, New York; Fridman Gallery, New York; and Automata Arts, Los Angeles, among others, and has been featured in publications including Artnet, Flash Art, and Whitewall, among others. Carter holds a BFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and an MFA from Columbia University. Carter is represented by Microscope Gallery in New York City.
Gladstone Deluxe is a New York based artist working with percussion and electronics. Their work takes form in recorded music, installations, and performances. Gladstone has performed as a soloist at the Kennedy Center, released multiple tracks charted in the Beatport Top 10, works in fields of research as a technical audio engineer and software engineer, and is an installation artist addressing concepts linking rhythm, geometry, the black body, and technology. In 2023, Gladstone released music with Black Techno Matters, is / was, DETOUR, Ongoing Box and Miscellaneous Records. Films that Gladstone scored were shown at the British Film Institute, a STARZ television premiere, the Hawai’i International Film Festival and more. He's appeared in galleries and night clubs across the east coast and midwest, including The Warhol Museum, Wallach Art Gallery, Chashama, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Hot Mass, Jupiter Disco, with more to come in 2024, including appearances on the west coast and a collaboration with Moog Synthesizers. Gladstone also keeps busy as the timbales player for Las Mariquitas, which was recently featured in Rolling Stone.
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